Design culture foregrounds the relationships between the domains of design practice, design production and everyday life. Unlike design history and design studies, it is primarily concerned with contemporary design objects and the networks between the multiple actors engaged in their shaping, functioning and reproduction. It acknowledges the rise of design as both a key component and a key challenge of the modern world.
Featuring an impressive range of international case studies, Design Culture interrogates what this emergent discipline is, its methodologies, its scope and its relationships with other fields of study. The volume's interdisciplinary approach brings fresh thinking to this fast-evolving field of study.
Introducing Design Culture
Section 1: Developing Design Culture
Introduction
Design Culturing: Making Design History Matter
Kjetil Fallan
Taste and Attunement: Design Culture as World Making
Ben Highmore
Embedding Design in the Organisational Culture: Challenges and Perspectives
Alessandro Deserti and Francesca Rizzo
Use in Design Culture
Toke Riis Ebbesen
Section 2: Addressing Market and Society
Introduction
A Brand for Everyone
Sara Kristoffersson
Buying into the Future: A Case Study of a Danish Brand of Fashionable Children's Clothing
Trine Brun Petersen
The Glowing Black of fritz-kola. Aestheticisation in Design Culture
Mads Nygaard Folkmann
Section 3: Positioning Design Professions
Introduction
Design Culture in the Sex Toy Industry: a new phenomenon
Judith Glover
Working from Home: Fashioning the Professional Designer in Britain
Leah Armstrong
On the Professional and Everyday Design of Graphic Artifacts
Sarah Owens
The Fixing I: Repair as Prefigurative Politics
Gabriele Oropallo
Section 4: Locating Design Culture
Introduction
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed: Relocating Kähler's brand heritage
Niels Peter Skou
Performing Turkish Design in Products, Collections and Exhibitions: Expanding the Archive, Seeking Depth
Harun Kaygan
A Theoretical Straddle: Design Culture between National Structures and Transnational Networks
Joana Ozorio de Almeida Meroz and Katarina Serulus
The Challenges and Opportunities of introducing Design Culture in Jordan
Danah Abdulla
Epilogue: Design Culture as Practice
Index
